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Will has a boyfriend.
Except Mike is the one who carries his things, pays for whatever he wants, and cuddles him close on movie nights. He fixes the hot water issue in their shared apartment. They visit each other's families for the holidays. Mike cooks for Will, opens doors for him, and purposefully blurs every line other people draw between 'just friends' and whatever it is he and Will are.
The only problem is that Will doesn't seem to think it's much of one.
The only problem is that Mike happens to agree with him.
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13 Jul 2026
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"We're going to be talking about this all day if you don't get to the point and just tell me why you were being such a douche to me in Lenora."
"Except it's not as easy as that." Mike tilted his head as he pinched the hem of the vest he'd given to Will, fiddling with it with shaky fingers. "You're not exactly easy to talk to about this. And it's..ugh, it's kind of stupid and weird."
"So, like, nothing new then?"
"Yeah, more or less."
Feeling a little better, Will glanced between Mike's eyes and his lips, nearly keeling over as he couldn't help but whisper breathily, "I want to know, Mike. Whatever it is, whatever..you're scared to tell me, I promise I'll listen."
Walking through a field with Mike, thoughts overtaken and wondering why Mike didn't call him, Will's mind is reeling as he tries to figure it out, and..why oh why didn't he get a letter?
Well, Will has that question answered. And then some.
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10 Jul 2026
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In the end, it doesn’t matter. None of it fucking matters. Because what’s really in control is the tension. This elusive string tied between their chests that’s always changing length. Right now it’s so short and taught and strong that Will can’t imagine resisting it. So really, it was never a matter of if he would. Just when. When will he fold? When will he let go and let himself follow Mike into the water?
He dares to glance down at his knees, where he can see Mike’s fingers peeking out from behind his calves (as if he needed that visual reminder that they’re touching), and then back up to meet Mike’s expectant gaze.
He’s going to do it. He’s such a fucking idiot.
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Mike & Will have a long overdue conversation on the way back to Hawkins— by, in, and around a random motel pool.
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10 Jul 2026
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Will and Mike become friends with benefits. Which is a totally reasonable arrangement that they’re both completely content with, obviously.
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10 Jul 2026
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this loving feeling (it wears us out) by Girl_rotting
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
27 Feb 2026
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“Why? Why won’t you ever tell me what’s wrong with you?” Carlton’s voice is filled with frustration, and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard to Will.
What is wrong with him. It’s such a loaded question. Why does Will wake up screaming sometimes? Why can’t Will handle the cold? Why are there days when Carlton’s hands on him feel like being kept under water with no way up?
And why can’t Will tell Carlton the truth? How could Will possibly explain it without sounding insane? What is the human translation for being taken and kept in another dimension, violated, and possessed, only to then be violated yet again—
This part of him is something Will is never going to be able to share with anyone else. That nobody would understand.
Why won’t you tell me what’s wrong with you.
“Because you wouldn’t get it.” Will somehow manages to say it without gagging.
And then, Carlton goes in for the kill.
“Oh, but Mike does?”
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After leaving Hawkins to go to college in the great city of San Franscisco, Will finally finds someone who loves him. The only problem is that the only person in the world who knows him, is someone else.
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10 Jul 2026
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It's 1987 and Mike is determined to have the best summer possible. It's been over a year since Hawkins split, and Mike and Will have regained their closeness. Mostly. They do dance around topics and they do occasionally stare at one another for a few seconds too long, but nothing could come between them. Or that's what Mike thought, anyways. Everything was fine until Will found the letters.
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Lettergate and summer byler burger with a side of miscommunication fries
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10 Jul 2026
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The summer before college, Mike and Will move into a tiny studio together, ready to start their next chapter — only to discover their across-the-street neighbor has a very public, very active sex life. Their weekly “observations for research purposes” are all jokes and commentary…until one night the neighbor brings home a man, and something in Mike shifts. Suddenly the bit isn’t so funny, the spiral is very real, the lines start to get a little too blurry, and the curiosity feels a bit too personal. Unfortunately for Mike, the only thing more distracting than the view outside is his childhood best friend living three feet away.
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06 Jul 2026
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What initially begins as Mike and Will calling each other exaggeratedly cheesy pet names to mess with Max and Lucas starts spiralling into something a lot more intimate and dangerous. Will isn't really sure where they managed to lose the plot, or how far they can go before there's no turning back.
Or: Max and Lucas go through a late honeymoon phase. It's excessive. It's gross. Mike and Will (well, mostly Mike) decide to engage in exaggerated bouts of PDA to demonstrate how disgusting the couple are being. It starts to get out of control pretty quickly.
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04 Jul 2026
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In the aftermath of the Agni Kai, Katara watches over a recovering Zuko and they bare their souls to each other. In the two weeks immediately after the war's end, Katara finds herself lost in the labyrinthian halls of the Fire Nation Royal Palace and in her own heart. Then, she leaves for home and does not see Zuko again for three long years.
Since the war, Katara is plagued by strange visions in the southern aurora: entropic shadows swallowing towns and people. Believing these visions to be the guilt of her inner subconscious, Katara is compelled to return to the world beyond the safety of her southern shores. Meanwhile, strife and instability lie in wait beneath the world's political landscape like a dolphin piranha under the ice ready to strike. With world politics shifting and her tribe stronger, Katara decides to step onto the global stage in the newly-created Four Nations Council and finds herself among old friends - as well as new adversaries and challenges.-Set post-canon, VERY canon-divergent state-of-the-world (ie: comics irrelevant).
-Starts with a flashback, but will not stay in the past. Time skips imminent.Bookmarked by wisecat
28 Jun 2026
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Being a part-time superhero doesn’t solve Will’s problems; instead, it adds to them. As Cleric, he’s forced to deal with his egotistical know-it-all of a partner, Paladin. As Will, he’s stuck hopelessly pining after his best friend. He’s honestly not sure which is worse.
One thing’s for sure, though — he needs a change. In one of his weaker moments, Will comes up with a plan: get over Mike by getting under someone else, someone he knows he won’t fall for.
Maybe Paladin is good for something, after all.
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- Part 1 of I Need a Hero
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26 Jun 2026
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Sir Michael stumbles upon an injured bunny and decides to nurse it back to health. Over the two weeks they spend living together, the little creature worms its way completely into his heart. Until one morning when he wakes up to find the rabbit gone, and in its place is a beautiful, naked human boy with floppy brown ears and big olive green eyes.
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paladin!mike x bunny!will
🎧: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5afJ4x8yGcnor4ziUslhTb?si=d-GnETClRuGrPaeVZVJ13w
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25 Jun 2026
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His Reflection in the Snow Covered Hills by Quatrowrites
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
08 Jan 2026
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Signals.
‘A brush of the knee, a bump of the elbow, a shared look, accrued like a snowball rolling down a hill, until it was obvious.’
Will asks, sincerely, “How obvious?” A whisper, eyes wide, the sin of curiosity kept in a secret space between Robin and himself.
The snowball became an “avalanche,” apparently for Robin, but had Will enough snow on his hill to say the same for himself?
Will, as he has come to understand, has a lot to think about. Mike had certainly shown him things beyond brushed knees and shared looks, talking about snowballs was nothing when it came to the blizzard that is their relationship. So Will continues on his day mostly focused, but his mind can’t help but play back certain events like little movies of the past eighteen months, after his conversation with Robin.
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5 times Mike gave Will signals and 1 time Will took the bait, (taking place in those 18 months before s5!)
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- Part 1 of Landslide
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25 Jun 2026
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Public Bookmark 132
Mystery Work
Part of stfuterfs
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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25 Jun 2026
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The Avalanche of Desired Yearning by moongirlel
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), Byler - Fandom
22 Jun 2026
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❝ Even whilst dating another - Will Byers still manages to find solitude in the arms of Mike Wheeler.
They both yearn for the other's soul. To the point of nearly being on the brink of obsession. ❞
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Over the last 18 months, after graduation, Mike Wheeler has developed an unmanageable, ugly envious feeling towards Will Byers' new boyfriend — Chance Romanillos. Who just so happens to be one of Jason's stupid goons.
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24 Jun 2026
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I’m in love with you, do you think it shows? by apateangle (dm3rv)
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
09 Jun 2026
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An accident leaves Mike without four years of memories. He wakes up convinced that it's 1989, that Bush is the new President, and that his time at college in Boston has only just begun.
But it's 1994. There's a new President. He lives in New York.
And somehow, he shares an apartment with Will Byers.
Or: An Amnesia AU.
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- Part 1 of I'm in love with you
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24 Jun 2026
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Mike is spending the last urgent summer days with Will in Hawkins. He’s also writing in college. Somehow, these two things are always happening at once.
Or, ‘Funny how there’s a face underneath my face.’
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Something's been feeling weird lately by willel_domination
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
21 May 2026
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Mike’s heart lurches into his throat, constricting his airway as he takes in his face. Because he knows that face. His eyes have wandered along that strong nose, those bunny teeth peeking out between parted lips, that mole beside his mouth. He’s catalogued every detail of that messy brown hair, those long eyelashes, and that pair of enchanting hazel eyes, over and over again, to the point where it burns behind his eyelids when he kisses his girlfriend.
“Holy shit,” the man breathes, gaping in shock, and for once in his life, Mike doesn’t need a trick to stop his loud mouth. For the first time, he’s truly struck dumb.
Because it’s him. Older, taller, and different, but it’s him.
The man standing in front of them, somehow, is Will.
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18-year-old Will Byers gets sent back to July 1985, tries to help them out using some awesome superpowers and futuristic wisdom, and Mike does his best not to combust in the process.
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12 Jun 2026
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put your lips close to mine, as long as they don't touch by lumism
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
17 May 2023
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“Well, I don't know,” Mike says. This is exactly what he had practised in the mirror earlier– except now he has to say it with the sudden certainty that this is all a very bad idea. “I guess I thought that a kiss would be a good bucket list item, or whatever."
Will looks at him for a few seconds. His gaze is calculating, and almost curious. But then he just shakes his head dismissively, and looks away.
“Yeah, I guess,” he agrees. “It’s not like there’s anyone to kiss here, though."
Mike almost laughs at that. Yeah, right.
He knows of at least two other people who would be down to kiss Will, if he asked them to. He selfishly keeps this to himself- because he doesn’t want Will to kiss anybody else, and because he doesn’t want to explain why, exactly, he has been keeping such close track of his best friend's romantic prospects.
“I mean,” he says instead, with a shrug. “I’m here."
It's the end of the world. Mike thinks that he and Will should kiss about it.
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23 May 2026
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This has the most chaotic internal monologue that I have ever read. Very sweet and wholesome and did I mention a chaotic internal monologue?
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Public Bookmark 421
Mystery Work
Part of priv00090
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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21 May 2026
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"I wanna test something."
"Test something," Will repeats. Mike perks up a little sitting up on an elbow, like he thinks Will is finally getting it. Which he's not, for the record.
Mike's words come quick. "Yeah, just to see. Nothing too crazy. Not even like last night necessarily. Or not not like last night. Just smaller. Simple. Like earlier today, in the living room. You know wh—"
"Like your kiss with Jane," Will interrupts.
"Yes. Exactly."
Or: It's January 1992, and Mike and Will are college roommates, teetering on the edge of becoming something more. Mike drunkenly kisses Will at a bar, the night before Jane returns after five years of being presumed dead. Will convinces himself everything is fine, this is life returning to the way it was supposed to be. But Mike won’t stop kissing him.
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14 May 2026